Andrés Villenas

Software Engineering, .Net Development, Sitecore, and more fun.

"My two-cents" for the Sitecore Community, version 2019

Sitecore has one of the greatest software communities that I've seen. There is a cool slack channel where you can ask and share your knowledge with the community (and also some cool memes 😂).

Also, the marketplace is where you can contribute new modules to extend the features of Sitecore so it gets better and better. What about Reddit? Yes, there is also a subreddit for Sitecore.

Moreover, the Sitecore User Groups, which are organized by members of the community, offer some effective ways to learn and do networking in the place you live. Usually, they are organized using meetups, check the upcoming user groups events in different zones of the world for the rest of the year.

Some events of the last days of 2019:

My two cents

The year 2019 was full of changes and challenges, and professional and educational opportunities appeared. Of course, I saved some time to contribute to the community as much as possible. Here are my modest contributions of the year.

Month

Action

URL

Feb Sitecore module released in GitHub https://github.com/andresvillenas/Sitecore.Extensions
Mar Blog post http://avillenas.com/post/url-rewrite-module-for-sitecore
Mar Social network activity https://twitter.com/andresvillenas/status/1101571096191602688
Mar Blog post http://avillenas.com/post/introducing-sitecore-extensions
Mar Blog post http://avillenas.com/post/sitecore-wffm-and-tls
Apr Blog post http://avillenas.com/post/error-creating-a-user-contact-in-the-sitecore-xdb-solved
Apr Social network activity https://twitter.com/andresvillenas/status/1123451402313969664
Apr Social network activity https://twitter.com/andresvillenas/status/1112944186616147968
Apr Social network activity https://twitter.com/andresvillenas/status/1112942006714748928
Apr Blog post http://avillenas.com/post/url-rewrite-module-for-sitecore-part-2
Apr Blog post http://avillenas.com/post/how-to-create-custom-view-renderings
May Module in Marketplace https://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/S/SitecoreExtensions.aspx
May Participated as speaker https://www.meetup.com/Sitecore-User-Group-Ecuador/events/261354109/
May Social network activity https://twitter.com/andresvillenas/status/1134273836185214978
Jul Social network activity https://twitter.com/andresvillenas/status/1149895232781242368
Aug Blog post http://avillenas.com/post/how-to-speed-up-sitecore-9-in-your-development-machine
Aug Attending an in-person event https://www.meetup.com/Sitecore-User-Group-Ecuador/events/264138109/
Sep Attending an in-person event https://www.meetup.com/Sitecore-User-Group-Ecuador/events/264785223/
Sep Attending a webinar https://webinars.sitecore.com/securing-the-citizen-experience
Oct Attending an in-person event https://www.meetup.com/Sitecore-User-Group-Ecuador/events/265749453/
Oct Attending a webinar https://webinars.sitecore.com/impact-of-effective-personalisation-2
Oct Social network activity https://twitter.com/andresvillenas/status/1189723665371455488
Nov Blog post http://avillenas.com/post/sitecore-extensions-v0-0-2-1-released
Nov Attending a webinar https://webinars.sitecore.com/futureproofing-personalisation/room
Nov Module update published https://github.com/andresvillenas/Sitecore.Extensions
Nov Became a Glass.Mapper.Sc patreon http://avillenas.com/post/glass-mapper-sc-ftw
Nov Social network activity https://twitter.com/andresvillenas/status/1197141508031422464

Looking forward to 2020

Hopefully, in 2020, I will be adding more features to my Sitecore.Extensions module and I'll start the course about Sitecore Helix. Plus, I hope that I will do a deep dive into JSS and Cortex.

That's it for today.

Until the next post!